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June 27th, 2011, 12:30 am by KELLI SKYE FADROSKI, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

In 2009 longtime friends Dennis Lluy and Dave Leon signed a 15-year lease and made a commitment to restore the historical Yost Theater and create a viable nightlife and cultural event venue in downtown Santa Ana. Each of the guys has more than 20 years of experience with local music, marketing, promotions and various other niche trades that have kept them slowly, yet steadily, renovating the landmark over the past three years.

The public will finally get a better look at their multimillion-dollar labor of love when the 1,000-capacity venue officially opens Aug. 3 with its debut Dim Mak DJ night, followed by a performance with Colette and DJ Heather on Aug. 5 and its first official concert, featuring Unwritten Law, on Aug. 6. The month-long grand opening also features performances by local rockers Thrice on Aug. 13, psychobilly act Nekromantix on Aug. 14, Latin group Elefante on Aug. 31 and Mexican rap-rock band Molotov on Sept. 4.

The owners say they don't envision the Yost strictly as a concert venue, but a space to be used for comedy nights, alternative theater, fashion and nonprofit events, corporate conferences, as well as film and photography shoots, weddings and more.

“I think we've got an eclectic community of people down here,” says Lluy, 38. “We're basically going to have something for everybody here. For us to be successful, I think we have to be very diverse in what we do.”

Lluy lives less than a block from the Yost and is active in the Santa Ana community. He's been instrumental in organizing art walks and downtown festivals (like the Sound Downtown Music & Arts Festival in 2008), and he serves on the board for the Grand Central Art Center.

Talk about a rapid rise. It was only six months ago that the English quartet Mumford & Sons was playing the Troubadour just ahead of the stateside arrival of their excellent debut, Sigh No More.

Now, after having sold out two nights at the Music Box (formerly the Fonda Theatre in Hollywood) in June and currently scoring regular airplay on Star 98 and the like with its single "Little Lion Man," the group -- whose frontman, Marcus Mumford (pictured), was actually born in Anaheim -- has stepped up to an even larger venue: the Hollywood Palladium, where the band plays Oct. 18.

Mt. Desolation and King Charles will open. Tickets, $25, go on sale Friday at 10 a.m.

That Sufjan Stevens show at the Wiltern (Oct. 23) that I mentioned just the other day? Yeah, as expected, it's going on sale pronto: Friday at 10 a.m. Also, the just-announced Gogol Bordello show won't be at Nokia Theatre but at the considerably smaller Club Nokia, across the plaza at L.A. Live. (That makes more sense.) It's still on Oct. 13, though. Tickets, $35, are on sale Saturday at 10 a.m.

More at Club Nokia: Djavan performs Nov. 5, $40-$85, on sale Saturday at 10 a.m. ... The AP Tour, featuring Bring Me the Horizon, August Burns Red, Emarosa, Polar Bear Club and This Is Hell, arrives Oct. 29, $17 in advance, $20 for VIP or day of show, also on sale Saturday at 10 a.m. (and that bill plays Oct. 28 at the Fox Theater in Pomona, $17 in advance, $22.50 day of show, on sale at the same time) ... and the T-Pain show slated for Aug. 25 has been canceled, with refunds available at point of purchase.